An artist whose medium is language.

For more than 30 years, Jenny Holzer's name has stood for a conceptual art that questions our perceptions and the way we are influenced by media and politics. Holzer has made LED signs - typically identified with advertising - her trademark. These blinking, flickering text displays, designed to captivate and sway passersby, have been repurposed by Holzer since the early 1980s. Through her art, she shows us again and again how thoroughly seduced and manipulated we are by the visual and textual stimuli that surround us every day.

“Text has different effects in different materials,” says Holzer, which is why she is always finding new ways of presenting it: Whether chiseled into stone or projected onto rivers, oceans or buildings, her texts always elicit powerful emotions.

Claudia Müller's film follows the artist over the course of 10 years at work and through numerous exhibitions, making Holzer's art tangible as it traces her career, from the young artist putting up posters in New York in the late 1970s to one of the most influential female artists of today. Jenny Holzer's work demonstrates that while art may not be able to change the world, it can heighten our awareness of what surrounds us every day.

EXTRAS INCLUDE TWO SHORT FILMS:
"Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin" (3:40 min)
"Xenon Projections" (16:30 min)

Catalog Number: MC-1253	Type: Feature	Genre: Documentary, Art / Artist
Copyright: 2011	Length: 52 minutes	Format:  DVD  Region: 0
TV System: NTSC	ISBN:	UPC/EAN: 880198125392
Label: Microcinema International		Rating: Not Rated

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2011-11-01  Educational Media Online By Gerald Notaro Recommended. What will a post-text world mean to Judy Holzer and her art? Does hers become a dead medium? As About Jenny Holzer visually demonstrates, it probably won’t much matter. The language can be foreign, but the movement and placement of her artistic elements still move, and move the viewer. Her words, no matter what they mean literally, represent brush strokes or pixels. The film documents Holzer’s technique. Her descriptions are uniquely clear and revelatory. Biographic details unfold in the film along with her working processes. Viewers get an intimate and detailed look of her and her work. She is surprisingly candid about both. Holzer appears very direct and straightforward considering the emotional and immediate effect of her art. The genesis of her work evolved from graffiti, social consciousness, and the streets. Abandoned New York City buildings were the canvases of both her and her contemporaries. They were plentiful, available, and low to no cost. Performance art was created alongside visual art during these downtown pre-Tribeca gentrification years. About Jenny Holzer is an essential addition to any collection on contemporary art.

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